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Perennial herb Leaves (alternate, simple) Flowers (zygomorphic, usually nodding, sometimes cleistogamous) nectar spur Fruit ( loculicidal capsule or berry) |
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often aromatic Leaves and stem ( sheathing leaf bases, furrowed stems) Compound Umbel actinomorphic Stylopodium Fruit (shizocarp split into 2 mericarps |
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succulent herb Leaves ( simple and fleshy ) Flowers ( actinomorphic ) Fruit ( Follicle ) |
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Primrose family Leaves simple Flowers ( epigynous, clawed petals epigynous ) axile placentation Fruit ( loculicidal , sometimes berry or nutlet) |
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Leaves ( alternate, usually compound) Flowers (unicarpellate, ovary superior) Fruit ( legume or loment) nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root nodules |
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bipinnately compound leaves Flowers ( showy stames 5-merous) Fruit ( legume with U shaped line in seeds) Pleurogram present |
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Subfamily Caesalpiniodeae |
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zygomorphic flower with 10 distinct stamen fruit is a legume usually lacking U shaped line in seed |
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Subfamily Faboideae (Papilionoideae) |
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Herbs trees and shrubs often with tendrils zygomorphic flowers with monadelphous or diadelphous stamens Fruit (legume or loment seeds without U-shaped line) |
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Geranium family Leaves ( lobed, dissected or compound ) Flowers ( petals often alternate with nectar glands) Axile Fruit ( shizocarp one mericaps spiralling up central beak ) |
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milky latex stipules can be modified into glands, hairs, or spines Flowers ( imperfect plants usually monoecieous ) normal flower (perianth 5-merous Euphorbia flower (cyathium inflorescence several male flowers and a single female flower) Fruit ( shizocarp [each of 3 lobes falls off as a mericarp and seeds often mottled) |
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shrubs often with spines (gooseberry) Leaves ( variously lobed often fascicled) Flowers ( in racemes or subsolitary, rotate to tubular hypanthium petaloid calyx ) Fruit ( berry, persistant calyx ) |
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5-merous flower, many flowers hypanthium present |
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mostly shrubs and small trees only subfamily without stipules Fruit (follicles, capsule, and rarely an achene) |
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many shrubs and some herbs Leaves (can be compound or simple) Flower (polycarpous gynoecium) Fruit (achene, durplet, strawberry) |
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all woody leaves and stem ( finely serrate margins, can be evergreen with lenticels on bark) Fruit (drupe) flower ( unicarpellate , large hypanthium) |
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shrubs and trees leaves and stem (have lenticels) Fruit (pome [apples and pears]) Flowers (syncarpous gynoecium, epigynous flowers) |
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mostly perennial herbs leave (basal, reniform) FLowers ( petals often clawed axile placentation carpels united at base) Fruit ( capsule usually septicidal ) |
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honeysuckle family Mostly shrubs Leaves ( opposite decussate, simple, no stipules) Flowers(zygomorphic, usually cymes commonly axillary pairs) Fruit (berry or dry drupe) |
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Phlox family herbs leaves ( often with gland tipped hairs that give off noxious odor) Flower ( cyme inflorescence, axile placentation ) Fruit (loculicidal capsule) |
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Largest family of plants Habit (mostly herbaceous, water or milky sap) Leaves (usually alternate, frequently in basal rosettes, simple or dissected or compound) Inflorescence (head or capitulum, flowers inserted on receptacle, entire head surrounded by involucre of bracts called phyllaries, receptacular bracts) Flowers ( perfect or imperfect) 3 types ( disk flowers [tubular] actinomorphic, perfect) (Ray Flowers type A, zygomorphic, imperfect) (Ray flower B ligulate, zygomorphic, perfect, corolla 5-toothed) |
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involucre (whorl) of bracts |
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Asteraceae
Type B flower Ray only |
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Ateraceae
Type A flower
Disk and Ray flowers |
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Asteraceae
Disk only flower
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Habit (often rough to the touch (scabrous) or bristly) leaves (scalbrous, simple, entire or pinnately lobed) Flowers ( perfect, actinomorphic, often in comes, corona [crown]) Fruit (4 nutlets or achenes [very important for ID]) |
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habit (perennial, erect or twining shrubs, trees, milky latex) leaves( opposite or whorled, simple, entire) Flowers ( perfect, actinomorphic, petals often whorled) Fruit (2 follicles, berry or capsule, seeds usually comose) |
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connecting structure between pollinia of adjacent anthers |
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Habit ( annual or perennial herbs, stems often winged and 4-angled) leaves ( opposite or whorled, decussate, entire, sessile) Flower (actinomorphic, corolla contorted, often plicate (folded) Fruit (septicidal capsule) |
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folded as in a folding fan |
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habit (perennial herb sometimes shrubs, sometime milky latex) Leaves (alternate, simple) flowers (perfect, A or Z, corolla often campanulate) anthers for a tube around style fruit ( poricidal or circumscissile capsule or berry) |
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habit (herbs, shrubs or trees, often vines, milky latex) leaves (alternate, simple, often vary on same plant) Flower (perfect, A, corolla plicate, contorted, funnelform or salverform) fruit (capsule, berry or nut) |
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habit (no milky latex, herbs, woody vine, tree) leaves (alternate, simple) Flowers (perfect, A, plicate, rotate, funnelform, salverform, anthers often connivent) fruit (berry, septicidal capsule, calyx often present) |
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anthers converging but not actually fused |
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